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automatic versioning option that will let you bring back previous versions from earlier sessions that were not explicitly created. Making the Grade Zooming in on a image has never been one of Lightroom’s greatest strengths, with a click expanding or contracting a view by a selected increment. Now you can zoom in to a select area with a Command-drag or zoom continuously by holding down the Shift key. And it’s fast and fluid. All the Lightroom editions received what is now the usual round of performance tweaks. There has also been a bit of interbreeding going on. A while back, Premiere Pro CC inherited a set of fast and intuitive color adjustment tools from Lightroom. Now all the versions of Lightroom include Premiere-like color grading tools that let you add cinematic moods to your images by providing separate hue, saturation, and luminance controls on shadows, mid-tones, and highlights. These can be range from subtle corrections to surreal effects, but open up a new range of expression in your photography. Having been done for decades in Hollywood, first chemically (it was originally known as “color timing”) and then digitally, color grading is an art in and of itself. Music to Our Ears With IBC, Europe’s big annual broadcast conference, in September, Adobe’s video announcements are always a beat ahead of MAX and were covered in depth in MacDirectory’s October issue, but worthy of a brief mention here. Arguably the biggest news for video editors is the addition of production music libraries to Adobe Stock, with the level of integration on par with Stock’s graphic products. You can include, and even edit lower-quality versions of music from Stock to get you through approval cycles. Then when you purchase the license, it’s instantly swapped out with the high-res file, edits intact. A greatly enhanced captioning workflow adds AI transcription, better editing support, and styling with the Essential Graphics panel. Captions now appear as a track in the timeline and in their own panel for easy editing. For those times when you need to re-cut a master without the benefit of an original project file, Scene Edit Detection with slice and dice a contiguous video file into its separate shots. And, of course, After Effects CC redesigned its 3D workflow and interface in a way that makes it far easier to use (and learn). Adobe Rush offered Jason Levine, Adobe’s video evangelist, an opportunity to reveal some welcome some news. It now has the pan-and-scan tools for still images that creators have been longing for since the program’s release. It also inherited Premiere’s Sensei AI-driven auto-reframe tool to track and crop the subject in 16:9 video to square or vertical aspect ratios for social media, making it far easier to post your Arri Alexa footage on Tik Tok. Adobe Spark continues to shine. Partnering for the holidays with the mobile payment platform Square, the team launched the Holiday Business Boost, a contest to provide five small businesses a chance to win $10,000 in media buy credits. This followed close on the heels of pairing up three